The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-02
Germans and Frenchmen Think Point Has
Been Gained in the Schnabele Case, and
the Bitter Feeling Grows More Intense.
Lord Salisbury's Big Coercion Majority
Slowly but Surely Disappearing.
How the Irish Leaders Will Fight the Bal
four Coercion BiIl-Amusement for Lon
don's Gilded Youth-NOtes by Cable.
FRANCE AND GERMANY.


BouIanger Harps Upon Dangerous String
Rapid Growth of Bitter Feeling.
LONDON, May IA suggestive letter by Gen.
Boulanger, French Minister of War. was issued
to-day as an appendix to a pamphlet entitled
''The Next Franco German Battle" 1t embod-
les the principles of military training and tactics
put into practice by Bouianger since he became
minister The General declares that dashing
and offensive tactics are tast adapted to the pc
cularities of the French troops. who are demor-
allied by waiting. He proposes that at the de-
cisive moment solid masses, which have been
held in reserve, shall charge with bands playing
and colors flying, their onset thus accommodating
irresistible force. The General admits that
great losses incurred under the rapidity and
precision of the enemy's fire, but he contends
that the greater the loss of life involved the
less chances there would be of such losses in
isolated aud detailed attack. The General then
declares his expectation of coming conflict by
stating what the French ought to do when the
army finds itself again the battle fields of
1870. The publication will tend to the
fever, and the tone of BoulanGer's utter
ances is such as to inspire confidence in the
prowess of the army.
Paris specials to- night declare that although
the Schnabele incident has been peacefully set
tied. popular feeling against Germany is rapidly
rising. There is great excitement at Nancy,
Toure, and Spinal. Large bodies of men have
been assembled in the streets to-day, listening
to harangues melting the populace against Ger
many. and demanding the liberation of Alsace-
Lorraine from the German yoke.
Notwithstanding the release of NJ. Schnabele
by the German authorities, and his arrival in
triumph in Paris, the breach between the two
nations widens. Intricate diplomatic adjust
ments beyond the comprehension of the
border citizens Of both countries. and the
Schnabele case is having the peculiar effect of
giving both peoples the idea that their side
has triumphed. The French believe that the
commissary was released by the Germans because
they feared to hold him aSprisoner, while
the latter insist that Bismarck accomplished
his object when the arrest was made. in that he
proved to the world the existence of perfect
system of espionage along the frontier, which
morally supported by the French authori-
ties. In this view it will be saaai:y seen ffzf
German suspicion is not allayed, ana that the
sympathetic Alsatan will now receive little ad-
ditional consideration at the hands of his Ger
official superiors. The continuance of
wholesale expuisions from Alsace- Lorraine. and
the reports of encounters between Frenchmen
and Germans whenever they can get at each 9th
or. all 90 to show that the tension, if possible
increases, and that the Schnabele incident has
done little else than reveal in all its nakedness
the bitter hatred which exists. and which is ap-
parently augmented by every question which
arises between the governments.
In an interview, Schnabele persisted that he
threw off the German policeman and ran to
French territory before he arrested He
said the German detectives threatened to shoot
him if he resisted.
Schnabele confirmed Gautsch's statement that
he (the latter) was also arrested. Schnabele
kept in absolute ignorance of every
thing while in prison. He was lib
Grated at NJ, during an ex-
ceptionally heavy thunder storm. which
woke him from sleep He refused to say
anything about the German charges against him,
but said that his arrest was illegal.
Gautsch accompanied Schnabele on the
train as far as Noveant. where,
after an excited conversation, Gautsch was
overheard to say. "Upon my oath, you wrong
me; an innocent" To this Schnabele shrugged
his shoulders, uttering expression of rage
and contempt and burst into loud laugh ex
claiming Gautsch slipped off. He takes me
for an IDIOT